Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science

The aim of this Center is to solve important archaeological problems by extracting as much information as possible from the entire archaeological record: the macroscopic record as seen by the naked eye, and the microscopic record as revealed with instrumentation. Much emphasis is placed on working on-site in the excavation and then following this up with work in the laboratory. Students of the Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science are trained both in archaeology and in the natural sciences, and for this purpose there is a special PhD program at the Weizmann Institute.

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The Center has two senior researchers, Dr. Elisabetta Boaretto and Prof. Steve Weiner. The Center has MSc students, PhD students and post-docs.
Dr. Boaretto is also the director of the D-REAMS accelerator mass spectrometry laboratory for radiocarbon dating, and she is a track leader for the track entitled “The Timing of Cultural Change” in the Max Planck Society-Weizmann Institute.